Afro-Shirazi Party

The Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP) was a Marxist-Leninist political party in Zanzibar that was founded on 5 February 1957. In 1964, the ASP overthrew the Arab Sultanate of Zanzibar in the Zanzibar Revolution, ending 200 years of Arab dominance and establishing a communist single-party state. This state joined with Tanzania in the same year as the revolution. In January 1977, the party merged with the Tanganyika African National Union to form Chama Cha Mapinduzi.